Local elections
Voter Specialization in Local Elections
... visibility local races. Campaigns that have issues or field candidates in local elections have a higher probability of voters participating in these rural ...exclusively local races may be ...
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The Right of Immigrants to Vote in Local Elections in Greece
... in local elections and the decision of the Greek court which seeks cancellation of articles based on the principle of popular sovereignty and several other articles of the Constitution Greek ( ...
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Incumbent effects and partisan alignment in local elections : a regression discontinuity analysis using Italian data
... nicipal elections and of the national parliament elections from 1998 to 2007; all data are disaggregated at municipal ...year local elections can be observed; general elections instead ...
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GUIDE TO LOCAL ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN FINANCING IN B.C. for Candidates, Elector Organizations and their Financial Agents
... with Elections BC All disclosure statements must be prepared according to the rules in the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act (LECFA) and related regulations Elections BC provides the ...
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Ballot paper design: evidence from an experimental study at the 2009 local elections
... ABSTRACT The overriding principle of ballot design is that it should not confer any a priori advantage to one candidate over another. Ballot format should not determine or condition an election outcome. Yet, there is a ...
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Budget structure and reelection prospects: Empirical evidence from French local elections
... past local elections play roles in the reelection process: the higher the past vote shares, the higher they will be for the present election (which confirms the presence of an incumbency ...
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Radical Right Wing Parties Facing the Wall of the Local? The Vlaams Belang and Local Elections (1982 2018)
... Since the birth of the Belgian State, local elections have had considerable influ- ence on political life. Over time, particularly with the extension of the right to vote, this salience has been ...
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Hispanic Voters, State and Local Elections: How to Awake the Sleeping Giant
... of Elections in Lancaster County, while they consider all elections important, the voter turnout was ...local elections. Until something breaks or goes terribly wrong with local ...
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Partisan targeting of inter-governmental transfers & state interference in local elections: evidence from Spain [WP-IEB]
... ‘close elections’ RDD, where the threshold is located at 50% of the vote, is problematic in our case, for two ...Firstly, local councils in Spain are elected using a proportional electoral rule, the d’Hondt ...
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Europeans: a universal right to vote in local elections. European File 19/88, December 1988
... M ore than four million European Community citizens are deprived of the right to vote in local elections because they no longer live in the member country of which they are nationals.. T[r] ...
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Concurrent Elections and Political Accountability: Evidence from Italian Local Elections
... hold elections on separate dates, turnout rates tend to differ sig- nificantly ...general elections (66%), and more than twice as much as for the 2014 European Parliament and local elections ...
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Concurrent Elections and Political Accountability:Evidence from Italian Local Elections
... concomitant elections, we analyze a newly constructed dataset on Italian local elections and public finance ...municipal elections: the independent nature of each municipality’s mayoral term ...
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Local media and local elections: voters' preferred information sources
... that local content levels remain inadequate ...[of local media] to cover regional news and current affairs due to the disbandment of local news teams and the greater reliance on centralised news ...
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Electoral effects of intergovernmental fiscal transfers: An application to local elections in the province of Cordoba, 1995-2011
... Table 3 shows models for reelection of parties. We include two var- iables for automatic transfers –copapc and fofi ndespc; copapc is our main proxy local economic activity. It comes out as not signifi cant in any ...
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Do Local Elections Matters On Regional Budget Transparency?
... regional elections in Indonesia are a discriminant factor in regional government budget ...head elections, it raises allegations of the existence of incumbent motivations to inform voters more about the ...
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Why does social capital increase government performance? The role of local elections across Italian municipalities
... been so, especially in Italy and other countries with similar high debt burdens and worsened perspectives in terms of economic growth. Within this context, forward-looking agendas, those privileging expenditures in ...
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Local Elections and Organised Crime: The Case of Michoacán, Mexico
... Though we framed our interviews as informal ‘chats’, we made appointments with each proposed interviewee, informing them that our topic of interest was local-level development. The topic of the influence of ...
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Effects of candidate position on ballot papers: Exploratory visualization of voter choice in the London local council elections 2010
... of elections, few graphical representations have been used and the possible geographic effects of ordering have not been ...recent elections among London boroughs (6 May 2010) graphically through a series ...
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The 2016 local government elections in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa : is Jesus on his way?
... and local traditional authorities have collaborated to grant coal mining ...2016 local elections in areas in Northern KZN and a working relationship between the latter and the DA and EFF, the ...
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Comparative Analysis of Voting Participation: The Case of Turkey's 2009 Local and 2011 National Elections
... the local elections of 2009 lead us to question the argument raised by Akbulut (2004) that criticizes the liberal approach seeing local governments as school for ...in local elections ...
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